I Like The Saying, "Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Poorly." Especially When It Comes To Creative

I don't think it's reasonable to say that Chuuya felt betrayed by Dazai leaving the Mafia.

Like, the guy literally got stabbed in the back and almost killed via firing squad and still proceeded to ask for the Sheep to be spared and a year later went out of his way to save the guy that literally stabbed him in the back.

I mean, he was only slightly miffed that Dazai blew up his car. So, I severely doubt Dazai just quitting his job did any real damage.

I love how much we made fun of Andrew letting The Gay make decisions and then we got Jean's pov.

Random thought that crossed my brain about BSD. In Stormbringer, Dazai has Rimbaud's journal, and he read it. Given that it was a spy's journal, it's safe to assume it was encoded, but Dazai’s probably smart enough to break a code. However, Rimbaud would have written it to be decoded into French (becauseya know, he's French), not Japanese. So, Dazai either had to have someone else translate/decode it (unlikely), learned to read French fluently (a nightmare in and of itself because fuck how letters work apparently) before breaking the code, or he was already fluent in French at 16.

Happy Halloween! This chapter isn't Halloween themed, but i figured I'd give out a treat today. I hope you all enjoy!

Exerpt:

The clone cocked his head. “Do you really not remember anything? Dazai said that you didn’t, but if that’s a lie then I won’t tell.”

Chuuya threw his phone on the coffee table. “I … I know but I don’t remember if that makes sense. I remembered Verlaine and Rimbaud breaking me out of containment. I remember rage and hate and … and pain, but … nothing specific.”

The clone nodded and muttered, “Rage.” He looked up at Chuuya. “Does anyone else know?”

“Eh … Kinda? Technically, I told Dazai and the Boss, but I don’t think they put together that I was talking about myself. As far as they know, I don’t remember a damn thing.”

The second chapter of my BSD fanfic is up and I need some help. Chuuya’s clone needs a name, so if you got any ideas please feel free to comment here or on the fic. I will be eternally greatful for the help!

Summary:

During the cleanup of Chuuya and Verlaine’s fight, Dazai finds out there was another clone in Facility B and decides to retrieve it while Chuuya is recovering from his first time using Corruption.

Chuuya navigates being in the Port Mafia and taking care of his new little brother, and Dazai navigates the new dynamic in his an Chuuya’s partnership.

Not that Dazai cares ... right?

I may not word this right, but I like that Apothecary Diaries doesn't reduce any of the female characters to just victims. In so many stories that involve sex work, it seems like the women are victims first and characters second. As if their character is made completely around the fact that they've had this experience and that dictates everything about what they do and think in the story. And while Apothecary Diaries certainly doesn't shy away from the dark side/trama that can come from that line of work, it does do a good job at acknowledging that none of the characters are really defined by it or shamed for it in the story for that matter.

I mean, good thing the food can't kill him twice. Right? 🤣

Xie Lian would have one of those ‘making my husbands lunch/dinner’ channels and the comments would be full of people unsure of he’s genuinely that bad of a cook or is slowly trying to kill his husband.

@radiant-7 No historical proof?! Yasuke was a real living, breathing person! He was alive in the 1500s and is famously the first Black samurai! A literal five second Google search will tell you that. How can you have a problem with the creators being historically accurate with what he is most famous for?

Yasuke (Assassin's Creed Shadows)

See, with all the antiblack racism we've been put through over this man's sheer existence, is proof enough that he's excellent Black character design. Everyone rise and give Yasuke a standing ovation right NEOW-

Neil is the epitome of that "god has let me live another day and I'm about to make it everybody's problem" meme.

Chuuya had one hell of a year when he was sixteen. I mean, first he lost the Flags and found out he was used as an experiment and everything else that was Stormbringer then a within a few months after that the whole Dragon's Head fiasco happened, which was probably the second time he used Corruption. The dude could not catch a break.